temenos

American  

[tem-uh-nahs] / ˈtɛm əˌnɑs /

noun

plural

temenoi, temene

1. Greek Antiquity. a sacred piece of ground, especially the site of a temple or the grounds immediately surrounding it.

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Example Sentences

The simple and convenient order would have been: Hekatompedon, Erechtheum, temple or temenos of Pandrosus.

From Problems in Periclean Buildings by Elderkin, G. W. (George Wicker)

This avenue, or dromos, led to the sanctuary, the temenos, along a double row of immense basalt sphinxes, half woman, half lioness; half man, half bull.

From The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt by Couperus, Louis

He is within a temenos or precinct, a place “cut off” from the common land and dedicated to a god.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen

He placed a great stone gateway to the temenos, an outer temenos wall and gateway, with a colonnade between the gates.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

This is a sacred "temenos," an inviolate grove, set apart to some god; and within the fences of the compound no mortal dare set foot under pain of direful sacrilege and pollution.

From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns